Railway-tie



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T. C. ANDERSON.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 470,094, dated March1, 1892.

Application tiled April 24.., 1891.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. ANDERSON, of Moscow, in the county ofLivingston and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedRailway-Tie, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to improvements in railway-ties; and the object ofmy invention is to produce a cheap and durable metal tie which isconstructed in such a manner that it may be easily laid, that it willhold the rails securely in place, that it may be easily adj usted in anykind of weather so as to bring a rail into a desired position as regardsheight, and which has all the elastic qualities of wood.

To this' end my invention consists in a railway-tie constructedsubstantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, similar figures of reference indicate correspondingparts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a broken sectional plan of a railway-tie embodying myinvention with rails secured thereon. Fig. 2 is a broken verticallongitudinal section through the tie and rails. Fig. 8 is across-section on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a broken sideelevation showing a device for securing the ends of the rails andpreventing them from separating; and Fig. 5 is an end view of the same,showing the rail in section.

The tie 10 is composed of two separable parts 1l and 12, each of whichis substantially rectangular in shape, and each of which is hollow andopen on one side, the lower part 1l being open at the top and the upperpart 12 at the bottom. The parts are constructed so that the upperportion 12 will lit closely within the lower portion 11, and to preventthe upper part from sliding it is preferably made somewhat shorter thanthe lower part, and the part 11 is provided near the ends with lugs 13,which are secured to its inner walls and overlap the walls of the upperpart 12. The upper part 12 of the tie is provided near opposite endswith clips 14, which are preferably struck up from the metal forming thetie, and these clips are adapted to iit over the flanges of the rails 15and have their ends Serial No. 390,255. (No model.)

strike against the webs of the rails. In connection with these clipsother clips 1G are used, which are arranged on the outside and inside ofthe rails, the outside clips serving as an additional guard on curves,so that if the clips 14 should break the rails would still be held. Theclips 16 are pivoted, as shown at 17, to the tie, and they are adjustedso that when swung against the rail their ends will abut with the webthereof, and the clips are held in place by bolts 18, which extenddownward through the clips and through the upper portion of the tie.

Near each end of the upper portion 12 of the tie are inclined bridges'19, which have their ends 2O bent at an angle and firmly bolted to theside walls of the part 12. Beneath these bridges 19 are wedges 21, thebevel of which corresponds with the inclination of the bridge 19, and toprevent the withdrawal of the wedges small lugs 22 are formed on orsecured to the upper side of the tie-bottom. It will thus be seen thatwhen the rails are in place upon the upper portion of the sleeper thewedges may be driven inward and the part 12 of the tie will rest uponthe wedges, thus giving to the tie the same elasticity that a woodensleeper has, as the wedges are preferably made of wood. The wedgesl alsoafford means for adjusting the tie vertically. The

rails are secured in place upon the tie by slid' ing them sidewise underthe xed clips 1J. and then securing the clips 16 in the manner alreadydescribed.

In Figs. 4. and 5 I have shown a device in which the ends of the railsmay be secured, and which prevents the rails from spreading. Itcomprises a rectangular hollow sleeper 23, which is open at the bottom,and which has at the top a plate 24 with inclined lugs 25 on 9 oppositesid es thereof, and thelugs are shaped to fit the iiange of a rail andrest against the web, as best shown in Fig. 5. The sides of the sleeperare long enough to extend between two ties, and the top plate 24projects from the ends and is adapted to rest upon the tops of the ties.The sleeper is secured to the ties. The ends of the rails are heldbetween the lugs 25, andare thereby prevented from separating.

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Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Let-ters Patentl. A railway-tie consisting of two Vertical- 5ly-separable parts and Wedges Jfor separating the parts, substantiallyas described.

2. A railway-tie comprising two verticallyseparable parts, the upper or"'which has inclined bridges near the ends, and Wedges ro adapted to fitbetween the bridges and the bottom portion of the tie, substantially asdescribed.

3. The combination of the two parts] l and l2, the part ll having lugson the bottom and the part l2 having inclined bridges near its ends, andWedges adapted to fit between the bridges and ille tie-bottom,substantially as described.

4. A railway-tie comprising two verticallyseparable parts adapted toclose one Within the other and means for adjusting the parts in relationto each other, substantially as dcscribed.

THOMA'S C. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

S. R. THOMPSON, J. N. SWAN.

